San Francisco Chronicle

If you think textbooks, back-to-school clothes and private-school tuition are a burden, wait until your child is ready for college. College costs are escalating 7 percent to 9 percent a...

Robotic vacuum cleaners, cordless irons and hair dryers, and appliances controlled by telephone are but a few of the latest electronic products that Japanese companies hope will win new markets...

Gualala. You can`t pronounce it. And you can`t get here from there unless you brace yourself for a looping, nauseating ride up the coast on Calif. Hwy. 1. And you...

It was just an old notebook with a broken spine, completely frayed around the edges and strapped together with rubber bands. Some of the two inches of pages and scraps...

U.S. District Judge William Schwarzer choked with tears at the prospect of sentencing the Oakland longshoreman to 10 years in prison for what appeared to be a minor mistake in...

Once, Giants owner Bob Lurie and Walter Haas golfed together regularly, as members of the Lake Merced Golf Club. Then the Haas family bought the Oakland A`s. Giants owner Lurie,...

You may have heard about Kevin Mitchell and Vicks VapoRub. The Giants left-fielder, leading the majors in home runs and runs batted in, eats the stuff. It`s not a regular...

The woods are dark and deep and as lovely as the beautiful tennis star of the 1930s whose name lies behind the intriguing parcel of land 20 miles east of...

Tom Blackaller, a flamboyant sailor who made three unsuccessful bids for the America`s Cup, has died after apparently suffering a heart attack at the wheel of a race car. Mr....

In its first direct challenge to the proliferation of nuclear-free zones across the country, the federal government has threatened to sue Oakland over the city`s anti-nuclear ordinance passed by voters...